A Virginia Prison Held A Man In Solitary Confinement For Over 600 Days Virginia’s Department of Corrections has recently settled two lawsuits over its use of solitary confinement—a practice lawmakers are moving closer to abolishing. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
Michigan Agrees to Pay $80 Million in Prison Sex Abuse Lawsuit A complaint filed in 2013 on behalf of 500 currently and formerly incarcerated youth alleged that they were assaulted and harassed by incarcerated adults and corrections staff in adult prisons and jails across the state. Dawn R. Wolfe
Woman ‘Brutally’ Beaten in Mississippi Prison Died Because Officials Failed To Give Her Medical Care, Lawsuit Alleges The father of Nicole Rathmann says his daughter was “not made safe by employees” while incarcerated at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility. She was one of 16 prisoners to die in state custody in August 2018. Lauren Gill
The Appeal Podcast: Substandard Healthcare in American Prisons With Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge, a Type Investigations Ida B. Wells Fellow and Appeal contributor. Adam H. Johnson
New Lawsuit Is Latest Example Of Residents Seeking Accountability For Wrongful Arrests In New York City Charges in each of four arrests of a city man were subsequently dropped. Now he has become one of a long line of New York City residents who have filed wrongful arrest lawsuits against the city. Dawn R. Wolfe
Ohio Jail Faces $2.8 Million Lawsuit After Claims of Abuse Are Made By Dozens of Men The suit is the latest of at least three complaints filed against the Portage County Jail this year. Dawn R. Wolfe
Austin Prosecutor Accused Of Perpetuating Lies About Sexual Assault Victim District Attorney Margaret Moore continues to face accusations that her office mishandles the prosecution of sex crimes. Kira Lerner
North Carolina Jail Staff Accused Of Beating And Abusing Mentally Ill Veteran A civil rights lawsuit claims officers pepper sprayed him, stripped him naked, and then surrounded him and beat him to death. Kira Lerner
Trans Woman Jailed and Harassed Because She Didn’t Pay A $15 Seatbelt Fine, Lawsuit Says Sierra Castle alleges she faced discrimination and harassment after being placed in a men’s holding cell in the Cobb County, Georgia, jail. Raven Rakia
St. Louis County Jailed a Pregnant Woman For 39 Days Because She Refused a Paternity Test Adrianna Thurman said she was informed by jail staff after her release that she had ‘slipped through the cracks.’ Katie Rose Quandt
St. Louis County Is Profiting Off the ‘Muni Shuffle’ Long After Ferguson Protests A new proposal to abolish small police forces seeks to end the cycle of debt and incarceration. Teresa Mathew
Showtime’s ‘Escape at Dannemora’ Left Out Torture and Abuse The miniseries depicting a New York prison escape fails to show what happened to the men left behind. Katie Rose Quandt
ICE Is Using Driver’s License Applications To Arrest Immigrants More states are giving undocumented immigrants driver’s licenses, but many DMVs are sharing their information with ICE. Debbie Nathan
Virginia Jail Accused of Favoring Christians Who Agree To Live In ‘God Pod’ Muslim prisoners, meanwhile, say they were starved during Ramadan and deprived of religious texts. Kira Lerner
Lawsuit Accuses A Louisiana Police Chief Of Punching a Man and Throwing His Wife to the Ground Then he ordered another officer to arrest the man. George Joseph
New Orleans Court Ordered To Stop Funding Itself On The Backs Of The Poor The criminal court was funneling millions of dollars a year from poor communities. Bryce Covert
California County Law Enforcement Puts Kids On Probation for Bad Grades A new lawsuit says Riverside County’s probation officers threaten to prosecute kids for ‘pre-delinquent’ behavior. Carimah Townes
